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Obama – Manchin Attack on 2nd Amendment Fails

Thankfully the Senate stopped Joe Manchin’s attack on our 2nd Amendment rights. The Manchin-Toomey amendment was defeated by a vote of 54-46. Manchin put a lot of personal capital in this bill. He saw it as a way to elevate himself to the national stage. I’m sure he believes he could be President one day and this was dress rehearsal. The price paid for this spotlight was the selling out of his principles and acting against the voters who got him elected.

Manchin tried to assure West Virginians that this was just common sense and did not erode gun rights. What he did not tell you is that our Attorney General, a man who has no regard for laws that he disagrees with or the Constitution would have new powers of regulations over guns. That is the hidden danger of most bills originating from the left. The question is “Will the voters hold him accountable”?

Timely Advice

"Senator, my belief is we have to stay focused on a military that is so lethal that on the battle field it will be the enemy's longest day & worst day when they run into that force," - General James "Mad-Dog" Mattis

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” — H.L. Menken

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife."

Teddy Roosevelt

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan